Valley Medical Center, Decision 13800 (PECB, 2024)

STATE OF WASHINGTON

BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Omar Cuevas Vega, Organizer, for the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8.

Jared Van Kirk and Alyssa Melter, Attorneys at Law, Foster Garvey PC, for the Valley Medical Center (King Public Hospital District 1).

Findings of Fact

1.                  The Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8 filed a representation petition concerning the Oncology Treatment Coordinators and Oncology Treatment Coordinator Charge Capture Resource at the Valley Medical Center. The Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) determined the petition was timely filed and accompanied by a sufficient showing of interest. No other organization claimed to represent the employees involved.

2.                  The existing bargaining unit, last certified in Valley Medical Center, Decision 13571 (PECB, 2022), represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8 is described as follows:

All regular full-time, regular part-time, and on-call clerical nonprofessional employees of the Valley Medical Center (King County Public Hospital District No. 1) in the following job classifications: Accounts Payable Representative; Admitting Registrar; Birth Registry Representative; Buyer; Client Services Representative; Coder/Abstractor; Financial Advocate; HIM Charge Capture Specialist; Imaging Services Representative; Mail Room Clerk; Medical Records Scanner; Medical Records Technician; Patient Access Associate; Patient Account Representative; Patient Resource Float; Patient Resource Representative; Patient Service Representative; Perioperative Services Scheduler; Procedure Coordinator; Scheduler Technician; Surgery & Procedure Operations Coordinator; Telecom Operator; Transcriptionist/Secretary. Excluding supervisors, confidential employees, students, trainees, and all other employees.

3.                  Because the more than 50 percent showing of interest threshold was met, PERC conducted card check proceedings. The employees were given a free choice in the proceedings. The tally of results was provided to the parties. No meritorious election objections were filed.

4.                  The existing bargaining unit represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8 shall be modified to include the Oncology Treatment Coordinators and Oncology Treatment Coordinator Charge Capture Resource for a bargaining unit described as follows:

All regular full-time, regular part-time, and on-call clerical nonprofessional employees of the Valley Medical Center (King County Public Hospital District No. 1) in the following job classifications: Accounts Payable Representative; Admitting Registrar; Birth Registry Representative; Buyer; Client Services Representative; Coder/Abstractor; Financial Advocate; HIM Charge Capture Specialist; Imaging Services Representative; Mail Room Clerk; Medical Records Scanner; Medical Records Technician; Oncology Treatment Coordinators; Oncology Treatment Coordinator Charge Capture Resource; Patient Access Associate; Patient Account Representative; Patient Resource Float; Patient Resource Representative; Patient Service Representative; Perioperative Services Scheduler; Procedure Coordinator; Scheduler Technician; Surgery & Procedure Operations Coordinator; Telecom Operator; Transcriptionist/Secretary. Excluding supervisors, confidential employees, students, trainees, and all other employees.

Conclusions of Law

1.                  The unit described in finding of fact 4 is an appropriate unit within the meaning of RCW 41.56.060.

2.                  Representation proceedings were conducted in accordance with RCW 41.56.095 and chapter 391‑25 WAC.

certification

Valley Medical Center Oncology Treatment Coordinators and Oncology Treatment Coordinator Charge Capture Resource employees in the bargaining unit described in finding of fact 4 have chosen

Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8

as their representative for the purpose of collective bargaining with their employer.

ISSUED at Olympia, Washington, this  12th  day of March, 2024.

PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION

Michael P. Sellars, Executive Director